Thursday, August 5, 2010

Images of MURDER

Horror is a very image-driven genre, centered as it is on eliciting primal emotional responses. And so, it's perfectly suited to the brand-new meme bouncin' around the blog-o-sphere, on which yours truly has been tagged. That's because it's an image-based meme, in which bloggers are urged to come up with a series of screen grabs, all focusing on a specific theme. The whole thing was kicked off a little while back over at the blog Checking on My Sausages, and I got pulled in after being tagged by my dear colleagues/readers Leopard13 of Lazy Thoughts from a Boomer and John Kenneth Muir of Reflections on Film/TV.

Seeing as this is a horror blog, don't be expecting this thing to resemble an Anne Geddes calendar. The theme I chose goes to the very root of what I believe makes horror horror--the fear of death. Or more specifically in horror's case, the fear of being killed. And so I've chosen a whole bunch of scenes of people being offed which I found particularly striking.

But before I get to that, I must get to this. As one of the conditions, I must now tag five other bloggers to continue the meme if they so choose. And so I select:

16 comments:

This is an amazing (and gruesome) gallery: the fear of death and the act of killing captured in pictures. Chilling, disturbing, and yet, in so many cases, oddly beautiful (especially in terms of lighting...)

B-Sol, one wonderfully and gruesomely done image meme! I think John and I knew you'd come up with an ingenious and twisted take on this gallery of cinema images. And I very much agree with Stephen regarding your first image. Thanks very much for this, my friend.

A truly amazing series of images. I am especially afraid of that one from Halloween. I've always thought Michael in that sheet was the scariest image from the movie. He just stands there all foreboding and shit.

Which horror film *should* be remade?

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